motivate learning through student interest in a particular problem or in the specific data.

working with data provides students an excellent interactive engagement environment with heads on and hands on opportunities. Science education research suggests that activities are most effective when they are designed to interactively engage students

Specific learning abilities and/or outcomes associated with philosophical or methodological aspects of science may include the ability to:

ask scientific questions and state hypotheses.

design and conduct scientific investigations.

understand and critically evaluate the quality of data.

draw conclusions from the data that are logically consistent with the data a integrate prior scientific understanding.

understand certainty of conclusions.

understand the ethics and process of collecting and interpreting data.